I know it’s probably named in reference to wine, but I like the idea of a Linux Roblox program (emulator? I don’t know Linux or video games) as someone’s manic sobriety project*.

/* I don’t know if this is an identified thing, but most of the large number of recovering addicts I know sort of displace that manic type of love for the substance or behavior into one or more hobbies of some sort at first (examples include: repairing an old boat or classic car, building a house or cabin, making furniture or art, a bunch of types of exercise, joining a club, building furniture or bikes, or cooking) and gradually learn moderation afterwards.

Dried beans also use significantly less fuel for transportation

Yeah, I was at least 2000 words into the wiki thinking that I could be down with the church hating Tolkien nerds, before it became obvious to me that they’re, like, ultra racist. I’m sure there are dog whistles, but they went over my head. This is a pretty descriptive line explaining why varg doesn’t call himself a Nazi anymore:

Among other things, he did not wish to be associated with anti-Slavic sentiments.

Nope, but I can see a photo of him blowing Clinton doing him in, as in destroying his support, after which all his charges coalesce on top of him

He’s an easygoing southerner who was considered fat in the 90s, I could see a bunch of New Yorkers calling him bubba. I haven’t looked into it at all, but the nickname seems somewhat fitting

I had tubthumping stuck in my head and wasn’t nearly wet enough/using good quality lube, in retrospect.

Edit; we stopped and had lunch naked together, then went back to it and had a much better time.

I wanted to be a naval pilot engineer at four. I’m colorblind, terrified of heights, not fond of authority, sloppy, and scatterbrained as hell. It’s quite possibly the worst possible job for me. To be fair, part of the reason was that I hated the word “bellybutton” and thought anyone who said ”navel” instead had the right idea, so it’s not like I really understood that part of it.

Could be, but honestly, even if it was great, I wouldn’t have been into it. It really looked like a cat and I stopped eating meat at age 4, so anything other than chicken breast would probably be too gamey for me.

I was staying with my aunt and uncle in France when I was around sixteen, after about 12 years of vegetarianism, due mainly to my squeamishness, and we went to my aunt’s mother in law’s (my grandmother/great aunt in law?) for dinner. My aunt was desperate for me to behave perfectly because of some family drama I was too young for and made me promise to eat the dinner.

My uncle’s mother was a rural French woman born in ~1910 who was not familiar with the concept of vegetarianism (or maybe she was being an asshole to my aunt, but she seemed very sweet to me, just extremely formal), so she prepared whole rabbits just for me to avoid all of the examples my aunt listed.

I don’t know if you’ve ever seen or eaten rabbit meat, but it looks like a dead cat with tons of tiny bones and tastes oppressively gamey and greasy. I know how it tastes because I’m a fucking bro, but it was awful. I couldn’t eat the whole portion I was given, but we implied that I had my period, which she accepted and changed the conversation topic asap.

Temperance was led mostly by the protofeminists who wanted fewer drunk husbands beating their wives and then taken over by xenophobes and antipapists who realized that alcohol use was correlated with immigrant and catholic communities. At least at the start, it was very grassroots.

I’ve always heard to put them on top of an already cooked slice, don’t cook them at pizza oven temperatures. That might be why you didn’t trip, but it might also be an old wives tale

Ah yes, that’s the aspect of this situation you need to fix, the employee!

I strongly suspect this type of thing is happening a lot without media attention.

Part of me does want to see ICE fuck up and end up on the wrong sovereign land, but I don’t think that’s going to work out well for the people who reasonably defend themselves.

Okay, I’m starting from the position of: authoritarian countries are not functional countries.

Within the last few years they had such significant protests in response to a woman who died in police custody that they had to pardon 20k people imprisoned in relation to them and 80k people facing charges. Then they strengthened the laws around the cause for the arrest. That’s not what a functional country does when its people are unhappy.

If the only metric is money, sure. Iranian women aren’t exactly happy though

I’m sorry, I’m imagining her wearing a pin to make people feel comfortable that says T4TSA and I can’t stop laughing

Edit: comfortable!!

That sounds good, but I wonder if workers in fast moving fields still suffer from being out of work for however long the term of the non compete is.

There are also people who are just crippled by test taking anxiety. That’s probably not a good indicator for their driving ability either, though

All of these $2,000 checks are to keep us quiet